Called the ‘wedge dowel’, it means screws are replaced with small protrusions, allowing you to slot furniture together easily using pre-drilled holes.

Ikea’s Jesper Brodin told the Daily Mail ‘Ikea furniture typically contains quite a lot of fittings. We see some challenges in the time and interest in doing that. So we wondered what would happen if we took them out totally.’

Mr Brodin added that he had tried the new fittings himself, and found that he could fit together a table that used to take him 24 minutes in just three minutes.